Kathryn Page-Lippsmeyer
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Susana Sevilla Aho deposited Things are not what they seem in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoA video essay about title sequences from films by Alfred Hitchcock and David Fincher. An exploration of motion graphic design from analog to digital.
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Monika Dix replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
The 2017 Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Conference will take place January 5-8, 2017 in Philadelphia.
Please see the cfp below.
Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia
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Forum: LLC East Asian
How does literature negotiate boundaries, cultural awareness, or individual self-definition in…[Read more] -
Josef Raab started the topic New Deadline: Inter-American Studies Conference "Human Rights in the Americas" in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS) will hold its Fourth Biennial Conference at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) October 4 through 6, 2016. The conference topic is “Human Rights in the Americas.” Keynote addresses will be given by Professor Lisa Hajjar (UCSB), Professor David Palumbo-Liu (Stanford Uni…[Read more]
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Annette Damayanti Lienau started the topic CFP: Vernacular Comparisons beyond the Europhone in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoThis panel seeks papers that engage with questions, concepts, and histories of the “vernacular” or “vernacularization” beyond Europhone languages and contexts.
Submissions that address one or more of the following questions are encouraged. How might we explore (and move beyond) the insufficiencies of Europhone terms —such as the “vernacula…[Read more]
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Juan Meneses started the topic CFP: "Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent" (MLA) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoCFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”
MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the contemporary…[Read more]
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Juan Meneses started the topic CFP: "Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent" (MLA) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoCFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”
MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the…[Read more]
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Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Is there Tunisian literature? Emergent writing and fractal proliferation of minor voices in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoIs There Tunisian Literature? Emergent Writing and Fractal Proliferation of Minor Voices.
The article presents the Tunisian literature from the non-local perspective of the global literary market and the circulation of translated literature. The minor status of the studied phenomenon becomes obvious even when the Tunisian literature is compared…[Read more] -
Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Travelling away from the “artsy post-modern lefty-pinko university”. Noor's transcultural experience and the duties of the intellectual in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoTravelling away from the “artsy post-modern lefty-pinko university”.
Noor’s transcultural experience and the duties of the intellectual.The volume Qur’an and cricket consists of several travelogues produced by a Malay intellectual, Farish A. Noor, during his trips to the most problematic places of the world, marked by the contemporary “ba…[Read more]
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Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Nós, Portugal, o poder ser. Um universalismo virtual como resultado dum processo de auto-mitificação da cultura in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoWe, Portugal, the possibility of being. Virtual universalism as the result of the process of cultural self- mythification.
The article is divided in four parts. The first one contains the working hypothesis, associating Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa, the culminating formulation of the Portuguese self-mythification, with the trauma of Atlantic…[Read more]
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Stefanie Harris started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA Session sponsored by the Forum on 20th- and 21st Century German
Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines
Transnational, multimedial, interdisciplinary – although often employed as distinct descriptors, the mobility (and immobility) of peoples, material objects, information, and ideas suggests these concepts might be more p…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic CFP Sounding the Sinosphere in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years ago<u>Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere</u>
How should we understand the aural dimensions of composing, performing, and appreciating Literary Sinitic texts in pre-modern East Asia? 250-300 word abstracts to Matthew Fraleigh (fraleigh@brandeis.edu) by 1 March 2016.
Longer abstract:
Several new forums of particular interest to scholars working in…[Read more]
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Monika Dix started the topic CFP: Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe cfp for my panel “The Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia” is posted on the MLA website. I look forward to receiving your submisisons.
Monika Dix
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Patrick Whitmarsh started the topic CFP: Lovecraft's Weird Modernism (MLA 2017 Special Session) in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoLovecraft’s relationship to modernism/modernity; Lovecraft and race; Lovecraft and science/technology; Lovecraft and modernist gothic; modernism and weird fiction. Abstracts, 200-300 words by 1 March 2016; Patrick Whitmarsh (pwhitmar@bu.edu).
Link: https://apps.mla.org/cfp_detail_8647
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Eileen McGinnis deposited The Anachronistic Ada: Inventing a Twenty-First-Century Public for a Nineteenth-Century Programmer in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoToday, Lady Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer – for an algorithm she co-authored with inventor Charles Babbage in 1843. She has also become, per biographer Betty Toole, a “modern myth,” whose very ambiguity and otherness encourage readers’ self-invention around gender and tech, human-machine interactions, and female sexuali…[Read more]
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Peter J. Kalliney deposited Modernism in a Global Context (introduction) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoExploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the ‘global turn’ in contemporary Modernist Studies.
Topics covered include:
– Transnational literary exchange
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Zahi A. Zalloua started the topic CFP Catastrophe: Special issue of The Comparatist in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP Catastrophe: Special issue of The Comparatist
We welcome contributions that examine the notion of catastrophe in comparative studies and literary theory. Thinking catastrophe today raises multiple questions. What constitutes a catastrophe? How do we bear witness to a catastrophe? What historical catastrophes serve an exemplary or paradigmatic…[Read more] -
Ivy Schweitzer deposited “Bursting the Bubble: Making the Study of American Poetry Experiential” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoMy talk at the round table on Service Learning in Literary Studies about the necessity of failure in experiential learning.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Culture of Greedy Mind Readers" in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis primer in “cognitive cultural studies” explores the cultural fantasy of perfect access to mind through body. It shows that different genres and media—movies, novels, classic Chinese operas, medieval ribald tales, musicals, paintings, documentaries, stand-up comedy, and photography—have different strategies for making us think that we have ju…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 2 of 2: Breakdowns, No Towers and the Rest of the Canon in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoArt Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]
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